Guild Wars 2

If you would lower the price for gems, there would be more gold in the market.
This would result in higher prices making gold less valuable → same issue, just higher numbers.
The value of gold is controlled by supply an demand of the market – not the gem price.
The gem price derives from the amount of gold in the world, not the other way around.

I usually have Axe/Horn equiped, aswell as a wolve in pvp.
So to deal with a thief the best way you need to chill him with axe 3, then use horn 5 and wolve petskill. This way you can run as fast as you can and try to escape while that theif is feared and chilled.
Hopefully you find some teammates that can deal with the enemy for you.
That’s actually the best tactic for every enemy in sPvP right now!
I used this special tactic for the past few weeks and it works pretty well.
Same should work for WvW

Axe is fine imho, there are no changes needed

Hello Hello ANet

Act1:
My first ever MMO Event started and I was really excited.
The problem was: I had literally no idea what to do. I guessed I have to start in LA but there I saw nothing else but Pumkin carving and the Book-Thingy (which was both a lot of fun, don’t get me wrong).
But My expectation was a HUGE event with a lot of different stuff to do, more quests to solve etc. etc.
Hunting those doors, collecting candy corn and other stuff, ok. I had no idea why I actually did this, but I wanted all the achievments – there was nothing else that made me feel like “ kitten that Mad King really is mad, I need to fight that freaks creatures!”
And again, to call it “Act 1” there was to little new features and again not enough different stuff to do. I wanted to get some nice rewards for doing Events. The events were just repeating and nothing special at all. I felt bored, but still wanted that achievment. nothing more.
Act 1 was kind of dissapointing.

Act2
Muahahahahahahahahah the event finally started for me!
Beat the clocktower, so kitten hard but so rewarding. And I really felt like “Yeah dude, you just managed to beat that f#ckers mad Clocktower!” Not only the feeling of achievment, but also some nice exotic foot gear for my yet-to-turn-80-ranger!
The other parts of the Mad Kings Realm where not as fun, since now I expected to be able to get a whole set of exotic gear for beating the hell out of that Mad Kings Minions and doing the stuff he prepared, but … nah. 2/4 Parts didn’t reward anything and people just did it to get the achievment (again). There was no reason to constantly do those pvp like events for me. It was fun the first time, but I didn’t see any reason to do it a second time. Kind of dissapointing to me.
The labyrinth on the other hand was so good! Pumpkins to carve, Candy Corny to gather and events events events, and than even some Champions with a good chance to drop exotics. No halloween set exotics, but still, exotics. Remember, I am leveling a ranger and she propably want’s somethign fancy to wear after turning 80!
So I did this events quite often and leveled there from ~40-50 (which didn’t feel too boring, although it was kind of grinding) I left when the chest got optainable only once per day – I could have more fun leveling and seeing the world.
Act 2 was good and brought a lot of fun, but dissapointing for people who thought they could get a full set of Mad King Armor.

Act3
The so called “one time event” was a mere joke. Sorry, but you could have done so much better. When I saw the cutscene I was so excited to beat this guy make into the dirty hole he was trying to come from. I expected a huge group fight with a nice reward.
“Nopes, you got that all wrong, we just fooled you! Cutscene, awesome isn’t it? HUGE one time Event cutscenve thing! all hail arena net”
The Mad King could have made all the people change into halloween creatures (same HP, different abilities) to bring chaos to our world. But not with us, the brave people of insert your origin here We would have fought back and made that king leave our world and escape to the Mad Realm – to deliver the deathblow there!
I got fooled, but I wasn’t angry since I could start beating the Mad King in his realm – fine for me if it where somehow with a better reward (Mad King Armor, you remember?) I never saw any of those armor or weapon skins. As reward I got nothing but Candy Corn or Trick-or-Treat bags. Thats just dissapointing!
Nevertheless it was a lot of fun! I liked the dungeon a lot and I did it several times (never gave up the hope to achieve something usefull). In 20 runs I got like 2 or 3 exotics I can’t use anyways since they were not made for my class.

Act4
Shame on you for calling it an “Act” there was like NOTHING to do except that one stupid Mad King says game. People kept asking “where is the party?” in the chat…
There wasn’t even a place with party like decoration!
The Witch hat was nice though, I like that one

Conclusion
You did a great job making a fun event EVERYBODY could take part in, and I really enjoyed it. Although you could have done better at some parts it was still fun to take part.
Best act was act2 by far.
And please don’t fool us with future “one time events”. You know, we don’t like to get fooled ;-)

JonPeters.5630:

Wow this escalated quickly

Still thinking of you rangers… Next balance patch is mid Nov, but I’ve got at least a handful of fixes in testing already!

Don’t worry about the balancing, some bugfixes would be fine already…

That’s a general waypoint issue, Pets and NPCs share that.
It looks like the waypoints just don’t get updated frequently enough.
Also I think the Pet placement shouldn’t be handled by waypoints at all. thats just not reliable enough.

because the real update is comming november 1st, this was jsut a hotfix.

which would be a buff

Call me an optimist ^^
Patch comes usually in the night of monday → tuesday (Central European time)

Tomorrow’s patch day
Can’t – stand – the – pressure!

Best event ever.
So freaking awesome and fun because
1) you get loot
2) it’s a challenge but not too hard

Twitchz.6407:

I also understand there will be a load of people here commenting with things like ‘its easy’ and ‘your just a bad player’ these few people however make up less than 3% of the player base and have no idea what it is to play a fun game.

where do you get your statistics from?
Cause they are wrong.

Change 1
A Longbow should have a slow Auto Attack with a high velocity projectile which hurts guite a lot.
So I think the attack speed as it is is fine.
The projectile velocity needs to be increased drastically as well as it’s damage. (10% damage / 50% velocity should do, we still have traits!)
Rest of the abilities are fine, But every skill could use the higher projectile velocity.

Also the “obstructed” bug needs to be fixed ofc.

Change 2
Pet should be able to hit moving targets, then they are fine.
For people who constantly whine about fast dieing pets: if you pick the glas cannon pet, you get the glas cannon pet! Take a wolve or something instead!

Change 3
GS Abilities are awesome and fun to play. Just the damage is to low. give us a buff here.

Change 4
1HSW Unroot – nuf said

You guys are pretty much alone with your opinion on Elementalists…
leveled mine just fine, like all my guild mates.
You need to play it smart.
The ranger levels fine too, I agree. But thats only because you can tank the mobs so your pet can hit them…
Pet damage is ok imho, just the ability to land a hit is fail.

Dont get to excited guys, we’ll see whats going to happen next patch.
If it’s awesome then, well, fine. If it’s not dont get mad.

@ Sco:
This is brilliant. In fact, that would make me play a ranger again (= play the game again)

Can you upload a version without music?
Can’t watch it because youtube blocks it in germany :-/

… is a joke, right?
Cause everything else would make me think "Dude, ANet is seriously leaving broken classes for weaks, starting to “balance” them (if at all doing something) rather than fixing exissting problems before thinking about game balance."

And that would make me want to get my money back so I could buy Dark Souls :-/

Awesome, love it
You’re a master of sketching

Dont worry, how could an artist drawing for other people be a bad person?
Looking frward to seeing your scetch

That truly hurts my feelings :-/ ^^

Hopefully this works better

You skipped me Didn’t you like my application? ^^

Oooooh nice

Hey I just read this
and this is crazy
But here’s a picture
so draw her, maybe?

http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/wdkcjiok/Aeri2.jpg

gloombot.3519:

Secondly, any noob that says “OH JUST REBIND YOUR KEYS”, please get intelligent enough to try this yourself before suggesting. It changes your secondary weapon as well, it changes your underwater weapon, and your secondary underwater weapon. So by returning 1 weapon to the “old way” we’ve screwed up 3 other weapon rotations/skill locations.

Isn’t the “noob” the one who can’t adapt?

Why don’t you just change the keybinds if it’s “in your mind” the old way? In that case you dont look at the buttons anyways o.O

This “Update” was mainly for balancing, no great class bugfixes at ALL.
This is kinda sad imho, since there are plenty of bugged traits (Necromancers are like funny clowns in sPvP right now).

At least Warrior didn’t get nerfed, too.
Al that needs to be done imho is fixing fast hands, then it could be so much fun to play a warrior!

Aga.8641:

What if they dodge your immobilize? Then you’re just left with a crappy build for 25sec. People keep posting these useless builds because they got a few kills in 8vs8 where it doesn’t matter what build you run since people there tend to run equally pointless builds.

The immobilize is nothing to get mad about, but if you lose because one of your skills gets dodged there is nothing left to do than pitty you.
Seriously, there is no 100% sure kill build.

If you can’t utilize your skills in the right moment this build is not for you.
You will need generel understanding of the necromancer and other classes.
As I said, this is no Glascanon. You have plenty of health and lifereg + good defensive mechanisms. If immobilize misses you have 2 options: alt + f4, then uninstall the game or keep on hurting your foes with your 2sec stun, your cripple or your freeze.
If all that gets dodged as well because you use it all at the wrong time you can still dish out loads of damage and help your team with the well and other stuff.

So unless you really tried this build, I can’t take your criticism seriously.
Once again: there is no “I Win Button”, so stop complaining about that.
The Build offers high burst with decent survivability.

Looking forward to read usefull comments and improvements.

Hey guys

I played Necro for a while now and came up with a heavy burst/life steal build:

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.5.1.4.18.13.24.5.5.5.106.108.127.123.129.2.2.44.302.310.312.0.0.0.331.0.0.346.347.350.0.0.0.30.0.10.30.0

May look squishy, but it’s not.
You steal health like a true Vampire and deal damage like a berserker.
In fact, you even kill guardians and warriors with ease.
In sPvP people even started running on sight! (Fear 2.0)

Imobilize your foe, get 10 stacks of Might, place the Well, Focus 4 Skill and now start shredding.
In Death shroud form your 4th spell is a total nightmare for the enemy team, since it deals heavy dmg now. (even more than before!)
You get LF so freaking fast you can almost use it on cooldown.
You have 1 Imobilize, 1 knockdown 1 chill on your Main weaponset + Blind & Weakness on your second.
You can deal ~15k dmg in 3 Seconds with Dagger2, Well, Focus 4 and Axe2 (or just keep shredding with your daggers which crits for 2k-3k [10 Might+3 Vuln. on your enemy])

I played this build on sPvP and Tournaments succesfull and it’s a lot of fun!
Troll your enemies with spectral walk, send conditions straight back to them and suprise them with heavy direct damage.

Hint: in the rare case that you feel to squishy (-> not makeing use of all your skills) swap spectral walk to spectral armor.

Try it out!

Regards,
Aeri

www.alltoarms.de

where can I see the build?

That is fail already – no stuns makes you so invulnerable and kitable by other classes.
please dont say you are a GS classcanon…

In that case: dont worry about anything, just press 2 and keep on running all the way from the Waypoint
Since you will not be able to counter a good player there is no need to worry ^^

can you stick to the topic plz?

go read the patch notes, they got the most fixes.

hey there!

I really like the open world and the PvE content is just awesome. (Not speaking about the dungeons }:-| )
I thought that some sort of controlled PvP even in the open world woud be awesome.

So here is my idea:

- You can become a Headhunter by buying a license in the major cities for 5-10s
- From now on, everybody who also is a headhunter can attack you everywhere except for major cities. (the Town Guard wouldn’t like it, would they?)
- You can’t attack people in your party
- Whenever you kill another Headhunter you get a reward. The more Headhunters you kill, the better the reward gets. (maybe cap it on a maximum/day)
- Reward is given to the player dealing the killing blow (it’s not a fair buisness, you know?) Reward is shared with Headhunters in your party nearby.
- On your map you can see headhunters with MORE kills than you have in your current area – you can’t see people with LESS kills than you have

- If you are killed, logged out, enter an Instanced Area (Heart of the Mists, WvWvW, Dungeons, Personal Story etc.) or spend more than 2 Minutes in one of the major cities you lose your Headhunter License

What do you guys think?

I really like the Idea of City Events.
Even Events in your Private Part (lol) cood be nice and also combat related (Bandit takeovers, etc.)

Non combat events could be hide and seek, producing things (Equip the Town Guard, bring Weapons, Armor and Food)
It could even be a huge chain like something corrupting the Armor of the Guard → Find it → restock the Guards armor etc.

Right now it’s not fun at all to set a food to the major cities except Lions Arch.

Hey there!

I am very curious about a longbow build to deal heave AoE + Support in large Teamfights.

I came up with this one: http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/warrior#8|0|10|259|226|318|246|0|0|0|0|25|1849|1524|0|0|0|0|0|30|1516|2417|1850|15|1109|0|0|2|9|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

what do you think about it?
Your enemy will have a VERY hard time comming near you and if you fail keeping him on distance you can regain it by fear and the passive quickness.

Please rip it apart and tell me what to improve!

There are so many bugs only in Warrior Traits. Dont know about abilities yet, but there’s still a lot of known bugs which need to be fixed.

Today it’s the second update with no warrior related changes AT ALL.
What is going on here?
Just look at the rifle traits which do only lower the description of the cooldown, not the cooldown itself. (only to give an example)

I’d like to know why there are changes to every other class except warriors.
We already have a very hard time, please don’t make it worse!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Warrior-bug-compilation

Tried it, it’s awesome, end of story.

Was roaming with a warrior with same setup and we defeated groups 2v5.

Try Axe/Mace + Heal Signet, Fury, For Great Justice, Dolyak Signet, Signet of Rage

Traits:

30
0
30 (endure pain, extremely usefull!)
0
10

Seriously, they just rip me apart bevore I can even guess which is the right one :-/
Any suggestions? Mesmer make me get really angry since randomly creating mirros is not even connected to skill in ANY way…

As a warrior player, (Axe/Mace + Sword/Shield || Rifle + Sword/Shield) I can tell you:
Every well played Engineer just kites you to death, knocks you down and deals tons of damage.
I feel completely outclassed.

pinkbunnies.4620:

I think that the mesmer has highest skill cap.

i.e. —> people who are good will be great with mesmer and people who play bad will be extra bad with mesmer because its very unforgiving.

its one of those classes where you have to dodge everything perfect and hit your skills at just the right time while having amazing situational awareness and top notch character control or else its a train wreck. but if you can do it then you are like this “naked mesmer” and every other class calls for nerfs.

Made my day xD

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The game is ~1 Month old and the different capitals are dead already.
Everybody is in lionsarch and nobody cares about those beautifully designed cities anymore, except for world exploration.

Please give us something that makes us want or have to visit the old cities more often.
e.g. a mystic forge or something!
You could also take the MF from Lionsarch and bring it to the capitals instead.

Lionsarch will always be visited because of it’s position in the world. But the other cities really need some attention

How do stat stacking sigils (+10 xyz for every enemy you kill) behave in the offhand?
I have 2 stacking sigils and only 1 is displayed (mainhand). The second one is luck, so I cant see it on the character menu :-/

good question, want to know that too

I think you missed some of the description of skill 5, what does the charged attck do?
and I think your F1 doesnt fit the axe, stun is toooooo much and I think the ultimate Axe ability should rather deal dmg than stun.
But I like the name of No. 5

I also think that the Axe shouldn’t focus on bleeds so much, thats what what the sword is there for

You can use every weapon, but for ealry leveling I recommend Sword/axe and lateron Greatsword, because these deal the most damage so far.

Hmm, you’re right a block doesn’t fit.
I’ll update it.

There is a build: http://forums.coalitiongaming.org/guildwars/defektive's-refined-warrior-bleed-build/

It worked pretty well for me, although I had to make some minor adjustments.
great survivability and good movement combined with decent damage.
I tried this build and it’s fun to play, but Axe/Mace exceeds it.

Since the community already decided there will be 2 handed Axes (lol, but seriously: we want it, plz add it) i’ve decidede to help the devs by thinking of 2H Axe skills

1: 3 Part Chain: 3rd Attack is a 360° swing. 1st & 2nd swing have ~45° swing angle
2: Execute: The Warrior lands a vertical swing dealing heavy damage and bleeding his enemies in a short line (SHORT!, can’t move. cast time sth. like Mace skill 5 and 1/3 of it’s range)
3: Axe Bash: The Warrior uses the blunt side of his axe to daze his enemy for 2 seconds. If he hits his enemy from the back he gets knocked down for 1 second.
4: Crippling Strike: The Warrior inflicts a sever wound to his target, dealing damage and crippling it for 5 seconds.
5: Finishing Whirl: The Warrior spins, attacking surrounding enemies up to 2 times. Enemies below 25% recieve double damage.

F1: Berseker’s Rush: The Warrior sprints towards his enemy, stopping behind it. Every enemy in the line recieves damage. Damage is reduced the more enemies he hits. The more adrenalin the Warrior has, the less damage gets reduced.

Note: Before you discuss whether this is OP or not, please consider that there are NO damage values given!
“Double Damage” might sound hard, but it depends on the base damage of the ability.

Please discuss and make honest improvements.
Hopefully the ArenaNet Devs get to see this thread to help us create a better world (of Tyria)

2H Axes, ofc.
Already posted this in the suggestions forum.

I dont even know why they let them out, since it perfectly fits between Hammer and GS ;-)